Enfield Pencil
December 2014
Getting Ready for the Holiday Breakfast!
Teachers and Students working together
Leigha- taking a break after some hard pushing!
Yes to Lockers!!!
By Keanna Walton
I THINK WE SHOULD HAVE LOCKERS. It is important to have lockers because we need the extra space to store our items. Also some kids can’t carry all of their things from class to class all day, so the locker is a simple solution. And lockers have secret combinations so nobody can see your personal stuff. Those are just some reasons we should have lockers.
No to lockers!!!
NO! To Lockers By Noa Yamaguchi 3 reasons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1.) Children should be responsible and organized enough to only have what’s called a “backpack”.
2.) Kids may take too much time at lockers and may get in trouble.
3.) It may even become a distraction and cause children to miss class.
Coding in 5th Grade
By Ray Blegen
5th graders are doing code.org. It’s a coding website that has all different puzzles and teaches you how to code. Computer coding is where you write different codes and the different codes do different things. A code is basically a program that tells the computer what to do. In code.org, you can do it from beginners or veterans. The puzzles get harder as you go on. That’s basically what code.org is. Code.org is a really fun coding website.
Enfield Holiday Breakfast
By: Emma Dingman
On Dec 23rd in the gym there is a holiday breakfast. There will be 3rd grade poems displayed. In Mrs. Griffen’s class, we painted pictures of winter scenes and wrote poems to go with the pictures. They will be on the tables in the gym to make it festive for the holiday breakfast.
Foreign Language Word of the Month
By Noa Yamaguchi
The word is samui [sah/moo/ii] meaning cold. Awesome , & Ughhhhhh (!) at the same time. The one on the left of the: is with the Japanese kanji and the letter hiragana letter, ii. The one on the right of the : is with all hiragana letters. THE END!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mittens
Mittens are soft and warm for the winter cold. THey also help keep your hands warm
They are perfect for winter. There are different kinds of mittens. Some mittens are hard and some are soft.
Jokes
Why did the chicken cross the road? - to get to her eggs on the otherside
Why did the monkey cross the road ?- he was stapled to the chicken
Why did the elephant cross the road ?- he was stapled to the monkey that was stapled to the chicken but he crushed them all and only the elephant got to the other side ...
Why did the snowman cross the road? - he didn't because he melted before he got there
[it was summer don’t ask about realistic]
Holiday Poll
Holiday Poll
This is a sampling of what holidays kids at Enfield School celebrate. ( I didn't poll the whole school)
Winter solstice 1
Christmas 25
Hanukkah 2
Kwanza- 0
Saturnalia- ( Ancient Roman Celebration in honor of Saturn) - 0
Dies Natalissolis Invicti ( Ancient Roman Celebration - the birthday of the unconquered sun)-0
Brumalia- Ancient Roman Solstice Festival- 0